"There is a saying that one year in IT industries is equal to 8 years in traditional industries. One year ago I wrote an article about the workstation market, if I compare this article to the situation today, quite everything has changed in this pretty short period of time. So now it's time for an update."

what I mean is eg. EDA software like First Encounter from Cadence or MCAD software like Catia. This software is typical for a workstation usage and it's widely used on Solaris/SPARC, but not on Solaris/x86.